Chapter 5 Death Node
The cold touch coming from under one’s body, and the shaking feeling when the vehicle passes through the rough road.
are always reminding Moreau——
This is reality.
It was clear that he had touched death, but when he opened his eyes again, he was back to a year ago.
Morrow was a little dazed, unable to suppress the memories emerging from the depths of his mind.
A year ago, he woke up in this carriage cage.
The unfamiliar environment and suffocating cage at that time naturally intertwined the extreme panic in the cold and shaking, thus dominating all the emotions at the time.
Now that his mind returns to this moment, it is impossible for Moreau to shout out of extreme panic like he did at first.
He quickly calmed down and glanced at his surroundings again.
With the light coming in from the small hole in the carriage, you can see two rows of iron cages placed in the long carriage, with a naked person locked in each iron cage.
Morrow was naked among them.
His eyes passed over the people in the iron cage one by one. There were men and women, about the same age as him, probably between 14 and 16 years old.
Looking at these people locked in iron cages, the images in Moreau's memory gradually overlapped with the appearances of these people.
Morrow was looking at the other people in the iron cage, and the others were attracted by the movement when Moreau woke up, and they all looked at Moreau.
Their eyes were mostly dull and indifferent.
Only two or three people looked puzzled.
Morrow ignored them and lowered his head to avoid the many looks from around him.
What on earth is this...?
In the fragments of memory, Feitan's sinister eyes mixed with rage can almost be reproduced before his eyes.
The cold sharp blade cut open the face and the feeling of life was also left.
This feeling is like a poisonous snake coiled in the heart, with a chill that goes deep into the bone marrow.
But——
Put your hand on your chest and feel the violent beating of your heart.
Still alive!
Morrow confirmed this fact, closed his eyes, and tried to calm down as much as possible.
This bizarre way of escaping from death made him realize the preciousness of having the function of breathing.
A moment later.
Morrow slowly opened his eyes, lowered his head, and looked at the back of his right hand.
The annual ring tattoo is still there!
This refreshed his spirits.
He remembered clearly that the outline of the growth ring tattoo slowly emerged on the second day after he traveled through time, and then was finalized within a few days.
But at this point in time, the growth ring tattoo has appeared, and it is still complete.
This is the difference.
Morrow focused his eyes and moved his right hand to the light to see more clearly.
Under the dim light, Moreau quickly discovered the changes in the growth ring tattoo.
The originally filled white growth rings turned pitch black at this moment.
And the infinity symbol in the inner circle is gone, replaced by——
Lv.1.
Morrow's eyes changed. Judging from the blackened growth rings, he realized that all these changes were most likely caused by the growth ring tattoo.
The infinity symbol turned into Lv.1, but I don’t know what happened.
Is it a love etude...?
Inexplicably, the figure of Melena flashed through Moreau's mind.
Lv is the symbol of level, and the level system is the most special aspect of Melena's reading ability.
Hence, Moreau will inevitably think of this aspect.
But is there any connection between the two?
If the effect of the annual ring is to return him to one year ago when he dies, then what function does the grade symbol that replaces the infinity symbol play in it?
Morrow lowered his eyes as he sorted through the many known information.
While thinking, he subconsciously raised his left hand and gently stroked the growth ring tattoo on the back of his right hand.
「Huh?」
At this time, Moreau noticed a red "X" symbol on the back of his left hand.
The edge of the symbol is as black as thick ink, exuding an ominous atmosphere.
"This is...?"
Morrow's pupils narrowed, and his attention was instantly focused on the newly appeared "X" symbol.
In a flash——
Consciousness is like a flat boat swallowed by a whirlpool, vibrating and blurring for a moment.
It is a short breath.
Morrow's eyes once again appeared like Feitan.
This time, it was so clear that Feitan could see the cold murderous intention hidden under his violent emotions.
ett!
The touch of the blade slicing open the face, and the suffocating feeling of death strangling the throat, also came back exponentially.
The next moment, endless darkness hits.
Morrow experienced an extremely real death replay in this way.
Immediately afterwards, the consciousness was shaken and blurred again.
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The scene in front of me dissipated like the weather, and was replaced by a heart grasped by dark hands.
Morrow stared at the heart and suddenly got an answer in his consciousness.
The heart held by both hands belongs to him.
This kind of unfounded knowledge was forced into his head like data transmission.
Along with it, there is also a piece of information called "Death Node".
"Huh?"
Suddenly, consciousness returned to reality.
Morrow was startled for a moment and realized that he was still maintaining his original actions.
"Death node?"
Muttering to himself in disbelief, Moreau slowly raised his head, fixedly looking at the rusty iron rod in front of him, then sighed and leaned back, leaning weakly on the iron rod on the other side.
Death Node——
It can also be said to be the time of his death, which was June 23, 1997.
He died at the hands of Feitan on this day.
Then he was reborn to the point in time when he first traveled through the world, which was June 7, 1996.
There is no doubt that he got a chance to come back.
However, the death node imprinted on oneself will not disappear due to rebirth.
If the "death node" cannot be destroyed before June 22, 1997, his heart will instantly turn into dust and he will return to the embrace of death again.
The way to destroy the death node is to kill the person who created the death node with your own hands before the original death time comes, to offset the "X" symbol on the back of your left hand.
That is to say, he will personally kill Feitan, who is unaware of this, within a year.
In this way, the curse from the dead node can be solved.
"One year..."
Morrow took a deep breath, thinking about the pair of black hands clutching his heart, and there was always an illusion that Kurapika had pierced his heart with the Sword of Oath.
The dead node is the dead node.
It doesn’t matter whether it can be destroyed or not, it is better than dying directly.
Besides...
Morrow glanced at the grade symbol in the middle of the annual ring tattoo.
Although the specific function of this level symbol is not yet certain, it should not be a bad thing.
Anyway, as long as you find a way to turn Lv.1 into Lv.2, you can actually achieve the effect.
In short, let’s solve the immediate problem first.
Morrow gathered his thoughts and glanced at the rusty iron rod.
The truck carrying them will arrive at a mental hospital built on the mountain in a few hours.
·On the surface it is a mental hospital, but secretly it is engaged in the business of human beings and organs.
Yes.
From the moment they were put into the cage, Moreau and others were arbitrarily labeled as piglets.
(End of this chapter)